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...faced with the discovery Leonardo da Vinci's portrait painted by Mona Lisa, or the revelation that a statue of the Madonna has been weeping genetically modified canola oil, but the time will come. The situation opens up a field which has so fax been inadequately researched, even identified.

The best-known example of misattribution is, of course, that pertaining to Shakespeare. Almost everyone outside inbred academic circles now knows that the plays which used to be commonly attributed to one William Shakespeare (who could not even spell his own name consistently) were in fact written by someone else, probably Henry Wriothesley (who also used the name Earl of Southampton) or perhaps by the boyfriend of a Stratford girl, Anne Hathaway, using the name of an actor he had read about. Former attributions of the plays to Christopher Marlowe can be discounted, because police records of the late sixteenth century seem to prove that he was killed after a bar-room bonding session following a football match in 1593. At the time some of those supposedly Shakespearean plays--to be exact, thirty-two out of thirty-seven--had not yet been written.

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